Jedi Academy

"Come in, soldiers.. Come in.. Do you read me?" Noxis said repeatingly in the com-link. He gave out a long withdrawn sigh when he realised they were dead. "Can not any of you fools make a job properly?" He said annoyed. "Remain here, Tifa. Guard the vessle, and I'll deal with this matter by myself!"

Tifa nodded and grabbed her rifle. She climbed up in a tree to gain a good view over the landscape. Darth Noxis grabbed the two last explosives that they had here at Ithor. "If you want a job done, you can only do it yourself" He said. Making sure he had the sabre at his waist, he started move against the temple for one final attempt. "Jik'Leth is dead, but his information might still remain. The Black Hand WILL remain a well kept secret at the Taris system." He clenched his fists. "Why did that Jedi back at Taris send a distress call to Jik'Leth of all possible choices?" Noxis said and picked up a holographic device. "Luckily we could obtain this copy of the distress call" He said to himself and activated it. The recording of a Jedi was shown.

Recording:
Jik'Leth. Listen. This is Humar.. *Sparkling sound*
Spread the word.. *Sparkling sound*
The Taris system.. .... ... The Sith.. Black Hand..
*The Jedi ignites his sabre, reflecting some laser shot's and the recording ends*

"Hopefully, I am not too late for the Ithor temple to discover the recording. That imbecill Tifa took the com-link, and not the holographical reciever.." Noxis said annoyed and stuffed the holographic device back at his waist.

Dero walked through the halls followed by D5-22. He had already taken off his armor and left it in his new quarters. He was hungry so he was headed to the cafeteria but first he wanted to stop off in the medbay to check up on the others. He felt an immense amount of shame for not being able to help them in the last battle. Getting lost in the jungle was more than embarrassing. When D5 rolled up to him and showed him the way back to the temple he was told that the others had gotten into a pretty big battle. He should have been there to help, if he had maybe the injuries the others had suffered could have been avoided. He would at least admit his failure to them and ask for forgiveness.

He walked down the hall and passed through the halls. He passed a room with the door open and casually glanced inside. Since he wasn't really paying attention to what he was looking at and more caught up in his thoughts he didn't register what was in the room at first. However after taking a couple more steps he stopped and back tracked. He peered in the room again and saw Jisko standing next to another Jedi who was lying in the ground. There was also five others lying on the floor, some in pieces, that looked like some sort of commandos. Jisko looked up at Dero as he entered the room, stepping over an arm of one of the commandos.

"What in," Dero said still a little taken aback by the scene. "What in the name of the Force happened here?"

"It appears we have a murder on our hands. These two," Jisko said, pointing at the soldiers on the ground in the room, "were trying to destroy the evidence with these explosive devices, which I deactivated. The other three were covering them. If you do not recognize him, this is Jik'Leth, and he apparently knew something we didn't. That would be the only reason anyone would single him out and want him dead."

Dero let out a long sigh. "It seems once we've dealt with one enemy another pops up."

He paused for a moment then turned to D5. "Deefive," he said. "My lightsaber." A panel slid open on the top of D5 and Dero's saberstaff shot out. He caught it and turned to Jisko. "I doubt this is the last of them. We need to search the surrounding area for more of these soldiers," he paused. "And possibly whoever is leading them."

He started walking out of the room then he stopped. "I don't have my communicator with me so you have to contact the others. I'll go outside and take a look around."

Jisko made an uncomfortable look when Dero said this. Dero turned to him and winked. "Don't worry, I have Deefive with me." He turned to D5, "Deefive, combat-mode." A faint shimmer went over D5 as his energy shield was activated and four panels slid open where blaster barrels poked out. Dero and D5 left the room and headed for the temple exit.

Jisko scoured Jik'Leth's former room for answers. The only thing that Jisko determined could hold any evidence was his holographic receiver, and he turned it on so it would play the last message.

Jik'Leth. Listen. This is Humar.. *Sparkling sound*
Spread the word.. *Sparkling sound*
The Taris system.. .... ... The Sith.. Black Hand..
*The Jedi ignites his sabre, reflecting some laser shot's and the recording ends*

With this, Jisko knew they had a large problem on their hands. He decided to alert Dero outside first, as we was the most vulnerable.

"Now.. let's see what these Jedi creeps are made of.." Noxis growled as he straightened his robe. He could now is a far distance see the Temple of Ithor and he knew that once he approached, he would be sensed. No time for games, he thought to himself as he would much rather face an army of Jedi, than the wrath of his master if he failed.

He halted up a hill and kneeled, only a lesser amount of yards away from the entrance. He took a deep breath, and with one push with his legs, he leaped all the way from the hill to the entrance of the temple, landing gentle. He looked straight forward, and could see Dero coming right at him. "Sooner than expected.." He whispered to himself and got a wicked grin on his face. He stood up straight and looked at Dero. "Hail, noble Jedi. I am Lord Ithalius. I am a diplomatic embassador from the Taris system. I come in peace" He said and straightened his robe. "Tell me.. I am searching for a Jedi by the name Jik'Leth.. He is in great danger.. Where can I find him?". Noxis had this friendly smile, yet serious look on his face.

"Heck am I tired. I haven't got sleep for days." Jaeh told herself and yawned. She turned to Sunather. "I'm goin' to my quarters to get an hour or so of sleep. See ya around." Jaeh made her way towards her quarters when she saw the open room. She peeked in and saw the scattered soldiers. "Whoa. What just happened in here?" Jaeh saw Jisko who stood up and appeared to be heading out. Jaeh had a hand near her saber. "So... care to tell me what happened?"

"Watch this,"Jisko said, and showed Jaeh the holographic message.

Dero saw the robed figure suddenly appear at the entrance of the temple and at first readied himself for a battle. But before he ignited his saberstaff the robed figure introduced himself. "Hail, noble Jedi. I am Lord Ithalius. I am a diplomatic ambassador from the Taris system. I come in peace" He said and straightened his robe. "Tell me.. I am searching for a Jedi by the name Jik'Leth.. He is in great danger.. Where can I find him?"

Dero cringed at the idea of someone thinking he was a Jedi. But he relaxed and decided to not kill the new comer for his sin. "Hello, Lord Ithalius," Dero said. "I am Dero Starstryder, Jensaarai Guardian. I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but it seems the Jedi known as Jik'Leth has been killed. Quite recently, actually. Maybe you can help us in our investigation as to why he was killed."

Dero looked the ambassador up and down again. He had a bad feeling that he couldn't shake, but he attributed it to the constant stress he has been under for the past couple weeks. However, he couldn't help but wonder this person who claimed to want to protect Jik'Leth would end up showing up soon after the Jedi's death.

"It seems a couple of unknown soldiers came in and killed him then attempted to use explosives to destroy his living quarters," Dero continued. "What do you know of the danger Jik'Leth was in?"

*unknown planet, new CIS base*

unknown darth: Darth X ,my apprence, i need you to gather three generals..

Darth X: i have two already my master, Siya and kardas

unknown darth: time of war is apon us, strike the temple you will..

Darth X: it will be done my lord...

*darth X makes his way to the new CIS fleet.. *

Darth X : WAR!, we strike now, captain ready to ithor!

*the fleet takes off heading to ithor...ships appear in the sky one ship shoots at the temple...*

General kardas: GO! droid army attack!!

*droids storm in the temple and in the forest.. chaos is every where*

((I have no idea what to say about the last post.. If that post count, I'm out..))

(You needed to just find a factory filled with them, and a way to control them. Anyway, we don't need the droids anymore since we have the Black Hand.)

((I'll just ignore that post, then))

"I have reason to believe he has in his possession what I'd call classified and possibly false information about the Taris system.. I am sorry for the loss, but could I come have a look at his room?" Noxis said to Dero and had a vague grin crossed over his face.
"That is, if you do not mind?" He said shortly after, with a gentle and sophisticated tone.
"And yes, we could probably sit down and investigate.. I could have serveral suspects about this, who have done it, why and serveral other things.. First of all, I'd like to search his room.. Hard to run an investigation if I cant get to his room, huh?" He said and got a friendly tone in his voice. He straighened the robe, to make sure it was not going to show anything that could expose his interest..

OOC: Umm, yea. Wtf, Nell? CIS? We're +20 year past the destruction of the CIS. A little background information of the CIS, if you don't know: The CIS was created by Sidious for the purpose of taking control of the Republic. Its existence was possible only because certain systems felt oppressed or ignored by the leading government at the time. Then came the Empire. Now that that has been destroyed we have the New Republic, and I doubt anybody is complaining about this government yet, seeing as how we just got rid of the totalitarian oppressive Empire.

And we're working on a storyline right now with this Jik'Leth and the bounty hunters. Let's not ruin that by having a surprise attack from a sect that really has no purpose in the galaxy anymore.

Anyways...

IC:

"Well right now we have a Jedi searching his room," Dero responded. "He's just doing some preliminary things, but the Jedi will probably want to do a more thorough search. I'm not really a Jedi so I don't really have much authority here, you'll have to go to the council of the temple here and request access to the room."

Dero still had a feeling that something was wrong. His senses had definitely been getting better since he came to train with the Jedi. "But in the mean time," Dero continued. "I'm going to have to ask you to go into the temple. Its not safe outside of the temple."

Dero turned to D5-22. "This is my personal astrodroid. He'll lead you to the main hall where you can wait for an audience with the council. Deefive, take Lord Ithalius to the main hall." D5 responded with its usual unintelligible whirs and beeps. The faint glow of the energy shield that was surrounding the droid faded away and its weapons went back into its body and the panels slid closed again.

"I need to search the area for anymore of these soldiers that may still be lurking around." D5 spun around and began to make its ay back into the temple. Dero stood aside to allow Ithalius to walk by.

"Please, may Tifa not ruin this.." Noxis thought to himself as he followed the D5 unit. "May the force be with you" Noxis said and turned t o Dero, giving him a friendly wave. "Fool" he thought, as he turned around to the D5 unit again, following it into the temple.
Even though Noxis knew he was strong, he could not face the council.. No way..

He followed the D5 for a while, with the schematics of the temple in his memory, he stopped after a while. So did the D5 unit when it noticed he have seized to move. Noxis looked down at the unit and gave a hyshing sound, as he disapeared into one of the side-paths. The droid was assigned to take him to the council, but when Noxis turned the droid had to, too. It followed him into the side-path and they both disapeared in the dark.

-

Tifa sat in the tree, waiting. "Why is that bastard taking so long?" She said with an annoyed voice. She stood up in the tree, about to jump down and walk after him. She stopped when she realised that the ship would then be unguarded. Giving out a sigh, she remained in the tree, but climbed a little bit higher. "What kind of job is this.. I'm an elite soldier.. They should trea--" she said, and suddently was hit by sleep, and passed out up in the tree.

((ok fine, ignorr my last post...but why the '' black hand'' now?... did we forget about the last attack?.. they were sith and yuuzhain vong ..dosent make sense already..))

((*shrugs*))

Jaeh stared at the message. "Okay, that was... err.. weird." She paced around the room and tried to look for other stuff that might have any importance. "What do you think it means? Black hand... hmm... -new sect.. group, whatever- the sith made? and what about the taris system? That makes little sense."

Originally posted by Nellis Munn
((ok fine, ignorr my last post...but why the '' black hand'' now?... did we forget about the last attack?.. they were sith and yuuzhain vong ..dosent make sense already..))

((They requested, I created. Do not take this too wrong, but your IC post sucked (Please read the link in my signature. It will help you out.).
What is it that does not make sense?
A secret organization being discovered, and they fight to remain secret?
The Taris system is a good location to have the organization, considering the fact that the planet is as good as deserted (NJO age).
I am sure people do not forget about the old attack, but should they ignore a current attack because of someone who's already dead?
My background make sense, and I'm thinking you just want something to whine about.
Go ahead and join the roleplay, imo. But do not assemble a force, introduce two characters, make an assault and cause a howl of terror in one post, barely ten lines (Which were not even full sentences).
Welcome to the roleplay. Just.. Just not like that 😘 ))

Sunather calmed down and realized that he didn't rest since he fell from the cruiser. He decided to have a seat until the next seemingly random attack.

OOC: Wow, 3 days sure is a lot to miss. I don't think I need a recap, though.

Originally posted by Nellis Munn
((ok fine, ignorr my last post...but why the '' black hand'' now?... did we forget about the last attack?.. they were sith and yuuzhain vong ..dosent make sense already..))

Originally posted by True Geek
Sunather calmed down and realized that he didn't rest since he fell from the cruiser. He decided to have a seat until the next seemingly random attack.

OOC: Wow, 3 days sure is a lot to miss. I don't think I need a recap, though. The way I am interpreting this is that the Sith and Yuuzhan Vong were a random act of destruction, and the Black Hand is a completely separate group.

((Recap: Darth Noxis has personaly gone into the Jedi temple, pretending to come in peace as the embassedor of Taris.. Dero have gone out in the world outside the temple to search for remaining hostility, after kindly letting Noxis into the temple.. There was an attack against the Jedi Jik'leth where four soldiers (Clone troop eq) was killed. They have found a recording that is saying following:

Jik'Leth. Listen. This is Humar.. *Sparkling sound*
Spread the word.. *Sparkling sound*
The Taris system.. .... ... The Sith.. Black Hand..
*The Jedi ignites his sabre, reflecting some laser shot's and the recording ends*

I hope that was helpfull..))